Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 124
124 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction delicious roast out of it, and that no one, including the wife, except him must touch it. Unfortunately for him, however, as his wife had just finished cooking, a few of her brothers gave her a surprise call. This was a pleasant surprise for her indeed but one which was destined to become a very unpleasant surprise for Joha. The tempting aroma of the freshly roasted meat was simply too much for them to resist and what followed was a logical conclu- sion. Having finished it to the last morsel they happily took leave of their rather worried sister. However, she had composed herself by the time Joha returned home and was ready with a foolproof excuse. When Joha, also smelling the remnant of the flavour, longingly asked for his two kilos of meat, the wife responded by pointing at the cat which was Joha’s favourite pet, and said: ‘Take your meat out of this cat, if you can. While I was busy working, he made short work of the entire roast’ Thereupon Joha immedi- ately picked the cat and weighed him in the scale. It so happened that the cat turned out to weigh exactly two kilos. Then he turned gently to his wife and enquired: ‘Please my dear, I do believe you of course, but if this is my meat then where is my cat, and if this is my cat where is my meat!’ Jokes aside, let me assert that I do not wish to contend this issue on the basis of Jesus’ as real and true teachings. This treatise is purely an exercise in viewing the current Christian doctrines which we believe have deviated a long way from the original teachings of Jesus as.